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New Study Shows Happiness Is About Experiences, Not Stuff

LivingorSurviving.com — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 15:19:44 +0000

If you’re trying to buy happiness, you’d be better off putting your money toward a tropical island get-away than a new computer, a new study suggests. The results show that people’s satisfaction with their life-experience purchases — anything from seeing a movie to going on a vacation — tends to start out high and go [...]

New Year’s Resolutions – How To Keep Them

LivingorSurviving.com — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:00:57 +0000

If you’re like most people, you have a “make-‘em-and-break-‘em” attitude toward New Year’s resolutions. Your intentions are noble—you believe you will make more time for yourself this year, and lose two pants sizes, and take a brisk walk every evening after dinner. No more couch potato lifestyle for you—2012 is the year when you will, [...]

How To Get More Done — Much Faster

LivingorSurviving.com — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:05:07 +0000

While your co-workers start every day enjoying a cup of coffee together in the break room, you’re barely able to find time to call your doctor. While they’re taking lunches, you’re rushing through another meal at your desk. Sound familiar? Here’s the good news: This apparent discrepancy may not mean you’ve got a bigger workload [...]

Why Change is So Hard and How to Make it Easier

LivingorSurviving.com — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:44:05 +0000

Change is essential for your growth and development as a person. Without change, as the old Texas adage goes, “If all you ever do is all you’ve ever done, then all you’ll ever get is all you ever got.” Your ability to maximize your performance and productivity depends on your ability to change in positive [...]

Why You Stress and How to Stop

LivingorSurviving.com — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:26:14 +0000

There’s an incredible amount of stress out there these days. In a recent survey, 80 percent of Americans reported that they are beyond frazzled. Stress not only wreaks havoc on us emotionally, it also has a powerful effect on our bodies and our brains, literally aging us before our time, according to groundbreaking research. The [...]